In a turn of events that exposes the extreme passion of Saab owners, Vampire Weekend are taking heat for lighting fire to two 900-series Saab cars in that new visual for "Diane Young". (The song begins with the lyric "You torched a Saab like a pile of leaves.")

"Vampire Weekend Are a Bunch of Dicks" reads the headline of one Jalopnik piece, which claims that the cars purchased for use in the video were "deeply loved by their owners who wanted to see them go to a nice new home. The old owners were completely unaware of the cars' fate."

Vampire Weekend are taking the criticisms to heart the way some might after being accused of animal cruelty.

"I want people to understand that we do respect cars and the last thing we want to do is to fuck up a collector's item or something like that", frontman Ezra Koenig told Spinner. "Hopefully people believe me when I say that our record label was trying to purchase the cheapest, oldest cars possible... From what I understand those old ones actually had a lot of electrical problems."

He continued, "If the people selling their cars felt mislead by the production company that bought them... of course if we had been there, if we had been a part of it we would never lie to somebody just to get a car -- we could have easily found something else. Stuff like that, we hope that that wasn't done dishonorably."